The thesis investigates the development of family support within one local authority in Scotland and shows that it has emerged from a complex interplay of governmental, philosophical, policy and practice change.

The goal of the diploma thesis Policies supporting harmonization of family and work roles in the Czech and Slovak Republic is the comparison and analysis of the various areas relating to the issue. The thesis is processed in the context of building the Welfare State, Tomasz Inglot's historical approach and on the process of Europeanization. The thesis deals with the politics of harmonization of family and work roles in both countries. The first part focuses on defining the research problem itself, namely on the harmonization of family and work roles, recent changes in family status and identifying factors possibly influencing politics of harmonization. The second part presents the theoretical background of the thesis, the concept of the Welfare State, its criticism, the concept of the Welfare State in the former Czechoslovakia, in the individual countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic and Europeanization. The third part deals first with demographic trends, and then with a comparative analysis of selected areas - family concepts, financial assistance for families, state social support system, employment arrangements and the services providing children care in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The conclusion contains a summary and the assessment of the comparative analysis,...

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-12T13:13:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSE HELEN SHIMABUKU.pdf: 10315363 bytes, checksum: 18ae5a852021813551a88575d9bddbbc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-12T13:13:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSE HELEN SHIMABUKU.pdf: 10315363 bytes, checksum: 18ae5a852021813551a88575d9bddbbc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-18 / The complexity of labor relations in the contemporary world has brought new consequences for both organizations and workers. One of those new phenomena is Presenteeism, which is the act of a physically sick employee showing up to work even though s/he is experiencing health problems. This Master‟s thesis has as main objective to investigate Presenteeism, as well as analyze how the work psychological demands, the worker‟s control and the leadership support can contribute to understand this phenomenon. It was conducted two studies – first theoretical and second empirical – based on the theoretical model Demand-Control Model by Karasek (1979). In the first study, it was carried out an analysis of the latest studies on Presenteeism and on the demands, the control and the social support at work, encompassing the main theoretical references on these variables. In this article, it was observed that the work demands, the worker‟s control and the support s/he gets in her/his organizational environment cause a strong difference in their physical and mental health. The second article examined the work control moderational power and the leadership support in the relationship between the work psychological demands and Presenteeism. The study was conducted using a quantitative cross-sectional methodology and involved 204 working technicaladministrative employees of a Federal Institution of Higher Education of the State of Goiás.Data were collected through self-report, i.e., by filling the Stanford Presenteeism Scale-SPS-6 and Job Content-JCQ Questionaire. It was used the programs SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 to do data statistical analysis. This Master‟s thesis leads us to conclude that in the presence of high psychological demands of work, the stronger the control is, the weaker the Presenteeism is. Although there is a significant relationship between the work psychological demands, Presenteeism and leadership support, moderation test did not confirm that the leadership support is a moderator in the relationship between psychological demands, work and Presenteeism. This Master‟s thesis showed that the use of the moderation analysis proved to be a resource of utmost importance, since only in this way it was possible to verify more clearly how work control and leadership support as moderator variables influence the direction or intensity of the relationship between work psychological demands and Presenteeism. / A complexidade das relações do trabalho no mundo contemporâneo trouxe novas conseqüências tanto para as organizações quanto para os trabalhadores. Um desses novos fenômenos é o presenteísmo, que se caracteriza pelo ato de o trabalhador comparecer ao trabalho mesmo se sentindo doente. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal investigar o presenteísmo, assim como analisar de que forma as demandas psicológicas de trabalho, o controle do trabalhador e o apoio da chefia podem contribuir para essa compreensão. Foram realizados dois estudos – um teórico e outro empírico –, tendo como modelo teórico de base o Modelo Demanda-Controle postulado por Karasek (1990). No primeiro artigo, foi realizada a análise do estado da arte do presenteísmo e das demandas, do controle e do apoio social no trabalho abrangendo os principais referenciais teóricos sobre essas variáveis. Observou-se, nesse artigo, que as demandas do trabalho, o controle do trabalhador e o apoio que ele recebe em seu ambiente organizacional impactam sobremaneira em sua saúde física e mental. O segundo artigo analisou o poder moderacional do controle do trabalho e do apoio da chefia na relação entre as demandas psicológicas de trabalho e o presenteísmo. O estudo foi realizado com 204 servidores técnico-administrativos de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) Federaldo Estado de Goiás, utilizando-se metodologia de natureza quantitativa de corte transversal. Os dados foram coletados por autorrelato, através do preenchimento das escalas Stanford Presenteeism Scale – SPS-6, e Job Content Questionaire – JCQ. Para o tratamento de dados, foram utilizados os programas de análise estatística SPSS 21.0 e AMOS 21.0. Verificou-se, nesse estudo, que na presença de altas demandas psicológicas de trabalho, quanto maior for o controle, menor será o presenteísmo. Apesar de haver relação significativa entre demanda psicológica de trabalho, presenteísmo e apoio da chefia, o teste de moderação não confirmou que o apoio da chefia seja um moderador na relação entre demandas psicológicas, trabalho e presenteísmo. Evidencia-se que a utilização da análise de moderação se apresentou como um recurso de suma importância, visto que somente assim foi possível verificar com mais clareza de que forma o controle do trabalho e o apoio da chefia, na condição de variáveis moderadoras, influenciam na direção ou intensidade da relação entre as demandas psicológicas de trabalho e o presenteísmo.

Dream/Hope/Love/Create/Act (and back) is a collaborative arts-based research project on the experiences that support workers have with enacting support, care and education practices in the disability support and education field. Five support workers were interviewed using arts-based and collaborative methods. Conversations focused on the disciplining power that policies, systems and structures have over the support practices provided to young people labeled with an intellectual disability. Questions were formulated on support worker experiences with enacting care, behaviour support, and curriculum. The following four issues were central to the inquiry: child development and the pressure for language acquisition; issues of consent in everyday practice and clinical spaces; the creation and enactment of behaviour plans; and disability labels and the diagnosis process. The in-depth, unstructured arts-based individual and group conversations were collaboratively designed with research participants, and topics of care, support and professional ethics were intentionally politicized. Conversations took place during the creation of poetry, painting and collage to grapple with practitioners’ own power in shaping the worlds of young people. By way of experimenting with diffractive approaches to analysis, assemblages of poetry, art and theory were created as thresholds for entry into the larger thesis assemblage. Transcripts and art were analyzed while thinking with various theoretical threads from critical disability studies, feminism, queer theory, critical race theory and social justice, with the purpose of blurring and resisting harmful and normative support practices. This study shows that support workers are honouring the bodies and communications of resistance of the young people with disabilities they support. This study also shows support workers as deeply self-reflexive as they engage in critical practices in resistance to ableism. Dream/Hope/Love/Create/Act (and back) has implications for informing research, training and education that grow support work practices to become increasingly consensual and designed with and for young people with a variety of disability labels. / Graduate

Every year a great amount of unaccompanied children flee their homelands without their parents or guardians. This means a journey filled with danger and difficulties. The difficulties don’t only exist during the road ahead but also when the children arrive to the new country. Even if Sweden’s work in receiving refugees is one of the best in the world, it still exist problems. The support work with unaccompanied children is done on different levels in society. The work performed nearest to the individuals takes place at the asylum- permanent residence accommodation where the youth are placed after the decision if they can stay in the country or not. We will in this essay illustrate how the support work with unaccompanied children in the age 13-18 looks like and what effect social support has on the adolescent’s identity development. By visiting two agencies that have asylum- permanent residence accommodation we carried out four interviews with professionals who work on a daily base with the young people. Based on the informant’s narratives and interpretations of the young people’s experiences, we seek to gain knowledge of their situation, both physically and psychologically. We investigated the circumstances behind the feeling of security, how reliance is formed and how social support can help the children’s sense of coherence. We use both crises theory, identity theory and the theory of SOC (sense of coherence) to analyze the informants´ stories. The results of this study show that social support is highly important for a child’s identity development. It is the professional who work on a daily base closely to the children who often symbolize the essence of social support. It’s through their work a safe environment is established and upheld. Identity is shaped through social relationships within groups where solidarity and a mutual confidence exist. We have also acknowledged some deficiencies in the structure of the support work, for example regarding which premises are the young individuals expected to adapt to the Swedish society. The adaption and adjustment has become an obligation for the young individuals rather than for the society.